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Who is as the wise man? and who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? a man’s wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed. Explain This Verse
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I counsel thee to keep the king’s commandment, and that in regard of the oath of God. Explain This Verse
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Be not hasty to go out of his sight: stand not in an evil thing; for he doeth whatsoever pleaseth him. Explain This Verse
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Where the word of a king is, there is power: and who may say unto him, What doest thou? Explain This Verse
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Whoso keepeth the commandment shall feel no evil thing: and a wise man’s heart discerneth both time and judgment. Explain This Verse
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Because to every purpose there is time and judgment, therefore the misery of man is great upon him. Explain This Verse
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For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be? Explain This Verse
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There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it. Explain This Verse
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All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt. Explain This Verse
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And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity. Explain This Verse
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Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil. Explain This Verse
12.
Though a sinner do evil an hundred times, and his days be prolonged, yet surely I know that it shall be well with them that fear God, which fear before him: Explain This Verse
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But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he prolong his days, which are as a shadow; because he feareth not before God. Explain This Verse
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There is a vanity which is done upon the earth; that there be just men, unto whom it happeneth according to the work of the wicked; again, there be wicked men, to whom it happeneth according to the work of the righteous: I said that this also is vanity. Explain This Verse
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Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. Explain This Verse
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When I applied mine heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth: (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes:) Explain This Verse
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Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it. Explain This Verse